Azure vs AWS

Are you looking for a public cloud solution and in doubt between Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS)? Then you haven’t heard about Fuga Cloud yet. Fuga Cloud is the newest public cloud in the Netherlands, completely based on OpenStack.

Fuga offers several advantages over the old guard, Azure and AWS. Would you like to try our public cloud first? No problem. Leave us your email address, receive € 25 Fuga Cloud credits and discover Fuga without having any costs.

Comparison

Software developer We Make IT Work is looking for a cloud solution to host the applications they develop for their clients. A server with 2 cores, 2048 MB RAM and 40 GB SSD disk space will do for a start. In the overview below, two instances of AWS and Azure are compared to the c1.small of Fuga Cloud. This last one meets the requested specifications of We Make IT Work exactly.

AWS t2.medium

Open source No

CPU 2 cores

RAM memory 4295 MB

Diskspace 40 GB SSD

Monthly costs € 40,60

IOPS activities pay per use

Azure D1

Open source No

CPU 2 cores

RAM memory 3500 MB

Diskspace 50 GB SSD

Monthly costs € 50,98

IOPS activities pay per use

Fuga c1.small

Open source Yes OpenStack

CPU 2 cores

RAM memory 2048 MB

Diskspace 40 GB SSD

Monthly costs € 20,00

IOPS activities for free

Open source

AWS t2.medium No

Azure D1 No

Fuga c1.small Yes OpenStack

CPU

AWS t2.medium 2 cores

Azure D1 2 cores

Fuga c1.small 2 cores

Ram memory

AWS t2.medium 4295 MB

Azure D1 3500 MB

Fuga c1.small 2048 MB

Diskspace

AWS t2.medium 40 GB SSD

Azure D1 50 GB SSD

Fuga c1.small 40 GB SSD

Monthly costs

AWS t2.medium € 40,60

Azure D1 € 50,98

Fuga c1.small € 20,00

IOPS activities

AWS t2.medium pay per use

Azure D1 pay per use

Fuga c1.small for free

Monthly costs are based on a period of 4 weeks / 720 hours. Latest update of this calculation is March 24, 2016. For this calculation, the Azure pricing calculator, AWS pricing calculator and the Fuga pricing calculator have been used. For IOPS activities at Azure: only for premium storage costs aren’t calculated.The pricing of the Azure VM above is based on a Standard Tier VM. Basic Tier VMs are an economical option for development workloads, test servers, and other applications that don’t require load balancing, auto-scaling, or memory-intensive virtual machines. Features that are automatically included at Fuga Cloud.

“The thought behind the Fuga Cloud platform is very similar to what Amazon offers, but at much lower costs.”

Bart Matthaei, Owner of Ambrero

Companies who uses OpenStack

Azure & AWS vs Fuga

1. Hosted in the Netherlands

Unlike Azure and AWS, Fuga Cloud is 100% Dutch. We use Dutch data centers and your data is protected by Dutch and European privacy laws.
Fuga Cloud customers aren’t affected by the Safe Harbor agreement or the new EU-US Privacy Shield, which hasn’t been ratified yet. With Fuga Cloud you comply with Dutch and European legislation and privacy policies on the protection of your own and your customers’ data.

2. No vendor lock-in

Azure and AWS have a self-built platform. Fuga Cloud is based on OpenStack, which is open source software. This allows you to easily migrate your data and applications to other OpenStack cloud providers should you want to do so.
Choosing an open source solution prevents you from getting locked-in by the cloud platform you use, which is the case with Microsoft Azure and AWS. By using Fuga Cloud, you choose flexibility and freedom.

3. No additional costs

With Fuga Cloud, you can select the most suitable configuration for your needs and immediately know what it will cost. With Azure and AWS you pay for every IOPS (read and write) transaction; Fuga Cloud doesn’t charge for these unpredictable variables. The only thing you have to pay for, apart from your configuration, is traffic.